Monday, September 29, 2008
Guess-A-Nobel Contest
Filed under: Medgadget Exclusive
In one week from today, the Nobel Foundation will start announcing this year's Nobel Prizes. Medgadget is proud to present the first ever Guess-A-Nobel contest. Here's your chance to shine: name either the scientist(s) or discoveries in the comments to this post, and win one of the new iPod nanos.
Since we are a medical blog, initially we were thinking only about the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. But then we decided to expand to include the other two supreme sciences of nature: Physics and Chemistry.
So here are the rules:
1. Anyone can enter by writing a comment to this post. Please make sure you leave your email address, so we can get in touch with you.
2. Identify either the scientist(s) or discoveries in Medicine, and/or Physics and/or Chemistry, for your chance to win an iPod nano, or even three of them.
3. If a winner lives outside the US, Canada, or EU, instead of sending the prize, we'll transfer an equivalent amount of ca$h via a PayPal account.
4. Deadline for entries is Midnight Pacific Standard Time on Saturday Oct. 4.
Good luck to all!
(69)
My first bet and the last for Medical Nobel:
Use of Stem cell simulation for organ / tissue / nerve regrowth should make it to the Nobel prize this year.
With so many new techniques and radically different approach to the technique, clearly the one involving minimal bio-chemical manipulation will be the best, however, ones that induce cell differentiation under environmental control seems likely to be the winner.
May the best technique win the Nobel.
Posted by:
on September 28, 2008 10:51 PM GMT
For medicine: Robert Langer, for his work in drug delivery and tissue engineering
For chemistry: George Whitesides, for his work in surface and physical chemistry
Posted by:
on September 29, 2008 04:55 AM GMT
For Medicine
Jules Hoffmann, S. Akira and Ruslan Medzhitov for their discovery and work of Toll-like receptors and contributions to the field of Innate Immunity.
Posted by: Luis
on September 29, 2008 05:35 AM GMT
For Medicine:James Till and Ernest McCulloch
For Chemistry:George Whitesides
For Physics : Hawking , Witten
Posted by: Ram
on September 29, 2008 06:21 AM GMT
For Medicine: Dr. Brian Druker at Oregon Health Sciences University for development of the cancer drug Gleevec
Posted by: Jim
on September 29, 2008 06:43 AM GMT
Chemistry - John Pople - computational methods in quantom chemistry
Gotta represent the uni
Posted by: Byron
on September 29, 2008 08:07 AM GMT
The Steitz's
Joan Steitz for her contributions detailing snRNP functions
Tom Steitz for the structure of possibly the largest RNP, the ribosome
Posted by: benUSES
on September 29, 2008 09:29 AM GMT
Medicine: Stan Fields for yeast two-hybrid protein interaction screen
Chemistry: Ken Houk for computational bio-design
Posted by: 33
on September 29, 2008 09:40 AM GMT
(1) Physiology or Medicine (Oct 6)
Alfred Knudson (Fox Chase) and Robert Weinberg (MIT) for their original contribution to the discovery of tumor suppressor genes (esp. RB, the retinoblastoma gene).
(2) Physics (Oct 7)
Adam Riess (Johns Hopkins) and Saul Perlmutter (Berkeley) for their discovery of dark energy.
(3) Chemistry (Oct 8)
Roger Tsien for his invention of Calcium Dye and Douglas Prasher for his invention of Green Fluorescent Protein (GFP) to study signal transduction activities in live cells. Marty Chalfie (Columbia) has a long shot for the third spot because his contributions to the GFP technology are also well documented.
Posted by: Omni
on September 29, 2008 09:42 AM GMT
Jack Szostak .- First yeast artificial chromosome, recombination mechanisms,
in vitro selection to study the evolution of catalytic RNAs ( ribozymes)
Posted by: Brian Hauge
on September 29, 2008 10:22 AM GMT
Probably for Chemistry (but maybe Medicine or Physiology) Leroy Hood
Posted by: Patrick L Coleman
on September 29, 2008 10:51 AM GMT
my guess is Dr. Willam Kolff who is considered the inventor of the artificial kidney.
Posted by: Mike Gentry
on September 29, 2008 10:53 AM GMT
In Physiology or Medicine, Kazutoshi Takahashi and Shinya Yamanaka for development of pluripotent stem cells from somatic tissue using defined transcription factors.
Posted by: Mark Samuels
on September 29, 2008 10:59 AM GMT
Ptashne or Brent. for any of various accomplishments.
Posted by: DJ
on September 29, 2008 11:57 AM GMT
Physiology or Medicine:Enabling the Human Genome Project - Leroy Hood for the automated sequencer and Melvin Simon for the Bacterial Artificial Chromosome the technique that provided the samples that were sued in the sequencer.
Chemistry: (someone partially beat me to this prediction) - Roger Tsien, Martin Chalfie (rather than Doug Prasher) and Tulle Hazelrigg for the innovation of fluorescent tags to monitor proteins
Posted by: Madhu
on September 29, 2008 12:56 PM GMT
Tom Steitz for ribosome crystal structure
Posted by: Jim Reilly
on September 29, 2008 01:04 PM GMT
2008 Nobel prize for
Medicine & Physiology: Evans/Jensen/Chambon for nuclear hormone receptors
Chemistry: Rothman/Schekman for membrane vesicle fusion/transport
Posted by: Manu Sharma
on September 29, 2008 05:24 PM GMT
OCT 6 Prize for Physiology & Medicine
Prof Elizabeth Blackburn for her groundbreaking work in telomeric DNA
Posted by: Sonya P
on September 29, 2008 08:57 PM GMT
Chemistry: Sir J. Fraser Stoddart for his work on Supramolecular Chemistry and Nanotechnology
Posted by: JZ
on September 30, 2008 08:31 AM GMT
Chemistry: ROGER Y. TSIEN, --florescent protein probes
Physics: Vera C. Rubin -- Dark Matter
Medicine: Akira, Hoffman, and Beutler -- toll-like receptors and innate immunity
Posted by: Peter
on September 30, 2008 08:47 AM GMT
Chemistry: Karplus - Contributions to quantum chemistry, NMR spectroscopy, and molecular dynamics simulations of biological macromolecules (to name a few)
Medicine: Ventner/Collins/Lander - Human Genome project
Posted by: Bryan
on September 30, 2008 09:09 AM GMT
My guess is John Altman, McHeyzer-Williams, and Mark Davis for the invention of MHC tetramers. (Physiology or Medicine)
To the comment about tumor suppressor genes, I would include Burt Volgelstein at Johns Hopkins University in addition to Weinberg and Knudson.
Posted by: CHM
on September 30, 2008 09:35 AM GMT
Chemistry or Physiology
Stuart Schreiber and Gerald Crabtree for discovery of small-molecule dimerizers, which provide small-molecule activation over numerous signaling molecules and pathways through proximity effects
Posted by: ranell
on September 30, 2008 01:12 PM GMT
Medicine: Fred Gage (possibly with Elizabeth Gould) - characterization of adult neurogenesis and adult neural stem cells
Posted by: JA
on September 30, 2008 02:38 PM GMT
Medicine - James Till and Ernest McCulloch
Chemistry - George Whitesides
Posted by: abhi
on September 30, 2008 02:57 PM GMT
Medicine: Irv Weissman for his work on hematopoeitic stem cells.
Posted by: dsj
on September 30, 2008 03:30 PM GMT
Physics - Nick Holonyyak for the LED.
Posted by: illini
on September 30, 2008 05:16 PM GMT
Medicine: Gary Ruvkun and Victor Ambros for the discovery of the first microRNA lin-4
Posted by: Liz
on September 30, 2008 06:41 PM GMT
(1) Chemistry
George Whitesides
Sir J. Fraser Stoddart
(2) Physics
S. Iijima
(3) Physiology or Medicine
Roger Tsien
Robert Weinberg
Jack Szostak
Posted by: hui WEI
on October 1, 2008 02:45 AM GMT
Physics: Atsuto Suzuki & Art MacDonald
Chemistry: Fraser Stoddart & Jean-Pierre Sauvage
Medicine: Leroy Hood
Posted by: SJC
on October 1, 2008 07:39 AM GMT
I would not be surprised if Dean Kamen wins a Nobel Prize in Medicine for his work with prosthetic limbs.
Posted by: mlshimr
on October 1, 2008 09:13 AM GMT
Nobel Prize in Chemistry: Three of the following Osamu Shimomura; Roger Tsien; Marty Chalfie; Sergey Lukyanov or Doug Prasher
Posted by: Marc Zimmer
on October 1, 2008 11:27 AM GMT
For Medicine, I think the prize will go to Brian Druker of Oregon Health & Science University for his work in developing the molecularly targeted cancer therapy Gleevec, as this has really validated and revolutionized the approach and aim to designing novel cancer therapies.
Posted by: Chris
on October 1, 2008 11:46 AM GMT
Physiology or Medicine: One or two of the following: Joan Massagué, Bob Weinberg, Bert Vogelstein, Gerard Evans
Posted by: Lars
on October 1, 2008 12:35 PM GMT
Physiology or Medicine: Tony Pawson for discovery of the SH2 domain and other domains
Posted by: Karl
on October 1, 2008 12:37 PM GMT
Medicine - Janet Rowley for her work in chromosomal translocations in leukemia and cancer.
Posted by: CY
on October 1, 2008 01:54 PM GMT
For Chemistry: George Whitesides, Allen Bard
Posted by: JLG
on October 1, 2008 02:14 PM GMT
Physiology/Medicine:
Elizabeth Blackburn and Carol Greider for the discovery of telomerase
Physics:
Yoichiro Nambu for his contributions to the theory of symmetry breaking and/or QCD
Makoto Kobayashi and Toshihide Maskawa for introducing 3rd generation of quarks to explain CP violation
Chemistry:
Harry Noller, Thomas Steitz, and Peter Moore for their work on ribosome structure
Posted by: HI
on October 1, 2008 04:39 PM GMT
Chemistry: George Whitesides
Posted by: AdamK
on October 1, 2008 11:36 PM GMT
Medicine: Miguel Nicolelis for his work on
brain-machine interface and brain-computer interface.
Posted by: Daniel Martins
on October 2, 2008 08:14 PM GMT
Medicine:
Dr. Michael Phelps for development of PET scanning.
Posted by: HZ
on October 2, 2008 08:14 PM GMT
CHEMISTRY: Prof. M.J. Krische for his work on "Hydrogen mediated c-c bond formation"
Posted by: Santosh Kumar Gurung, From S. Korea
on October 2, 2008 09:33 PM GMT
Chemistry: Fritz Vögtle, Jean Fréchet and Donald Tomalia for the development of dendrimers.
Posted by: RMR
on October 3, 2008 01:54 AM GMT
I gotta represent theory, so Martin Karplus and Eric Heller for Chemistry.
Posted by: TheMatt
on October 3, 2008 06:43 AM GMT
Medicine: Miguel Nicolelis, for his work on brain-computer interfaces.
Posted by: Luciana Christante
on October 3, 2008 02:01 PM GMT
Medicine: Shizuo Akira, Bruce A. Beutler, Jules A. Hoffman
Physics: Andre K. Geim, F.R.S., Kostya Novoselov
Chemistry: Charles M. Lieber
Posted by: MikeP
on October 3, 2008 02:38 PM GMT
Medicine: David Julius and Baruch Minke
Chemistry: Charles Lieber and Roger Tsien
Physics, Andre Geim., Kostya Novoselov and Vera Rubin
Posted by: David
on October 3, 2008 08:04 PM GMT
Medicine: Joan Massagué. For his discoveries about the role of microRNAs in cancer.
Chemistry: Frances H. Arnold and Manfred T. Reetz for their contribution to Directed Enzyme Evolution, that opened a new era in chemical catalysis.
Posted by: CR
on October 3, 2008 08:47 PM GMT
Physiology and Medicine: Ruvkun and Ambros for discovery and mechanisms of microRNA gene regulation.
Chemistry: Tsien and Prasher for fluorescent proteins.
Posted by: AS
on October 4, 2008 10:52 AM GMT
Medicine: Victor Ambros and Gary Ruvkun for the microRNAs lin-4 and let-7
Second Guess (Medicine): Elizabeth Blackburn, Carol Greider, and Jack Szostak for telomeres and telomerase.
Chemistry: Tom Steitz and Harry Noller for the ribosome structure.
Posted by: Christopher Hammell
on October 4, 2008 11:02 AM GMT
Physiology or Medicine
Pierre Chambon, Ronald Evans, and Elwood Jensen
"For their discovery of the nuclear hormone receptor superfamily"
Posted by: Josh Lacsina
on October 4, 2008 05:03 PM GMT
For Chemistry: George Whitesides
"For his pioneering work in nanotechnology and surface science"
Posted by: JMC
on October 4, 2008 07:39 PM GMT
Chemistry: Suzuki, Heck for development of Pd catalysis
Posted by:
on October 6, 2008 08:59 AM GMT
Tsien for fluorescent probes. aka Calcium dyes AND GFP. Only way to resolve the Shimomura, Prasher, Chalfie, Tsien musical chairs problem.
Lukyanov is way, way, way late to the party.
Posted by:
on October 7, 2008 05:14 PM GMT
Chemistry: Willson, Frechet and Ito for chemically amplified photoresists.
Posted by: Mike
on October 7, 2008 06:00 PM GMT
Gotta second this:
Physics: Atsuto Suzuki & Art MacDonald
It'll happen eventually. Bonus points: I get bragging rights for being on SNO.
Posted by: Nathaniel
on September 28, 2009 12:03 PM GMT
Chemistry: George Whitesides
Medicine: James Till
Posted by: Jason Connelly
on September 28, 2009 12:10 PM GMT
I think the Green Fluorescent Protein by Douglas Prasher is a solid bet chemistry wise.
Posted by: Antonio Amorelli
on September 28, 2009 12:21 PM GMT
It's a long shot, but I think Robert May should win, for his work on complex population dynamics and epidemiology.
Posted by: Eric Pedersen
on September 28, 2009 12:33 PM GMT
For Chemistry: Gerald Joyce, of Scripps
Posted by: Susan
on September 28, 2009 12:40 PM GMT
Physics: Mikheyev, Smirnov, and Wolfenstein
Posted by: JQD
on September 28, 2009 12:40 PM GMT
Enter me in the contest!
I think Stephen Hawkins will for physics.
Posted by: darth_borehd
on September 28, 2009 01:03 PM GMT
chemistry: Arieh Warshel: computational chemistry and biophysics: protein function
Posted by: n.a.
on September 28, 2009 01:04 PM GMT
Arnold Levine, for p53.
Posted by: Frank
on September 28, 2009 01:19 PM GMT
Physics :
Aharonov and Berry
Chemistry :
Whitesides
Posted by: Mithun
on September 28, 2009 01:21 PM GMT
Nobel Prize for Physiology and Medicine: Elizabeth Blackburn, Carol Greider and Jack Szostak for work on telomerase
Posted by: BrentH
on September 28, 2009 02:04 PM GMT
Vera C. Rubin rocks on physic
Posted by: zerocold
on September 30, 2009 01:28 PM GMT
Please enter my predictions in the Guess-A-Nobel Contest.
PHYSIOLOGY OR MEDICINE: Elizabeth H. Blackburn
PHYSICS: Peter Zoller
CHEMISTRY: Michael Gratzel
Posted by: Robby Maddin
on October 1, 2009 12:36 AM GMT
examples: <b>Bold</b> <i>Italic</i>
